David Allen Stringer

Published date24th October 2018

Last modified date24th October 2018

Author

Since the 1960’s I have been involved in movements for Peace & Social Justice & Green Living on the Ghandhian basis of Ahimsa or Non-Violence, my usual function since the 1970’s to network educational and other information between the participants in these groups of networks, in which, as a former free-lance journalist I was usually the editor of its Newsletter or Journal. All of this has been in a voluntary, unpaid capacity, while running my own small businesses otherwise in the field of horticulture.

Specialties: Acting as an agent or catalyst to bring others together for mutual stimulation & sharing of ideas/experiences & skills.

In 1999 the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Palestinian writer Edward Said organised a concert in Weimar in which half the performers were Palestinians and the other half Israelis.The performance itself and the rehearsals which preceded it had a lasting effect on all the participants. How far can the relationship between music and politics be used to promote a more peaceful world? That is the central question which motivates this challenging new work by some of the leading musicians and music scholars of our time.....